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re: beats, rhymes & life and the love movement—
i usually kind of think of br&l as even with midnight marauders. not because of anything other than i like them about the same. to me they're both 4.5-5 mic classics and i have never understood why br&l was considered disappointing. of course, i bought them at the same time (br&l's release date, to be exact) so i heard them both for first the time basically back to back. br&l was a smoother, slicker sound but to me it felt like the next logical step. i have always considered it classic, if for nothing else than it confirmed for me that dilla ("jay dee" / "the ummah" when working with q-tip at the time, of course) was THE guy to check for in the liner notes.
tlm was legitimately disappointing. songs with nore? really???? some solid beats, but yeah it felt like where the slickness of br&l was in line with the vibe, on tlm it was just . . . so *meh*. that said: "find a way", "like it like that", and "the love" are all top tier tribe and i would easily include them in a "best of" set. 3 mics, tops. and even that's generous. i never really counted the tracks after "rock rock ya'll" because they were all from older 12" singles, but they're all pretty much classic songs (except "money maker", which was just another disappointing new track).
trivia time:
tlm was released the same day as aquemini. talk about passing the torch. anyway, i've always just assumed andre's verse on "rosa parks" was about the br&l disappointment backlash (`kinda sour cause my favorite group ain't comin' widdit`). wonder what he thought of the love movement.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Friday, 12 November 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
haven't listened to TLM for such a long time, bought the fancy 3LP version the day it came out. I tried to love it but it never clicked outside of Find A Way (helped by the fact I already liked the Bebel/Towa Tei track it samples from). MM is my fav, that opening salvo of Biko and Award Tour never fails to make me smile.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 12 November 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
The old lady saw us on the lawn with the Henny
Turn the pool party into the one from McKinney
Might've been racist like the waitresses up in Denny’s
Swore we had twelve gauges, automatics, and semis
Now they wanna condemn me for my freedom of speech
'Cause I see things in black and white like Lisa and Screech
Presidents get impeached and others fill in the throne
But veterans don’t get the benefit of feelin' at home
two months pass...
The “classical” cheese mellowed to the sounds of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The “rock” cheese listened to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” An ambient cheese listened to Yello’s “Monolith,” the hip-hop cheese was exposed to A Tribe Called Quest’s “Jazz (We’ve Got)” and the techno fromage raved to Vril’s “UV.” A control cheese aged in silence, while three other wheels were exposed to simple high, medium and low frequency tones.According to a press release, the cheese was then examined by food technologists from the ZHAW Food Perception Research Group, which concluded that the cheese exposed to music had a milder flavor compared to the non-musical cheese. They also found that the hip-hop cheese had a stronger aroma and stronger flavor than other samples.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hip-hop-and-mozart-improve-flavor-swiss-cheese-180971721/
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Friday, 21 January 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
back in the day when i was a teenager
before I had status and before I had a pager
You could find the Abstract
Nibbling on Samsø
My pops used to say it reminded him of Tybo
I said "now daddy don't you know that things go in cycles?"
way that Stilton cheese is just ampin like Stichel
Seems like a poorly designed experiment to have the hip hop cheese exposed to a song with prominent jazz samples but no separate jazz cheese.
― BrianB, Friday, 21 January 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link